5.7-dB Fiber-to-Fiber Loss 8 × 8 Silicon Photonics Switch with Port-Alternated Switch-and-Select Architecture

We propose and demonstrate a Port-Alternated Switch-and-Select architecture that has both low insertion loss and low path dependency. Using silicon photonics platform, we realized an 8 × 8 switch with 5.7-dB Fiber-to-Fiber insertion loss.